postcode lottery

British  

noun

1. a situation in which the standard of medical care, education, etc, received by the public varies from area to area, depending on the funding policies of various health boards, local authorities, etc

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Example Sentences

"We have 43 forces tackling criminal gangs who cross borders, and the disparities in performance in forces across the country have grown far too wide, giving truth to the old store that policing in this country is a postcode lottery."

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Mahmood said "disparities in performance" meant that policing in England and Wales was a "postcode lottery".

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Dr Howells said clinic staff had needed to intervene on a patient's behalf with employers, housing associations, family courts and police - describing understanding of the law around medical cannabis as a "postcode lottery".

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She said Ms Elliott's petition was "a phenomenal piece of work" and said the current system was "a bit of a postcode lottery for some in terms of different schools applying the rules in a different way and different outcomes therefore as a consequence".

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Victims' commissioner Baroness Newlove echoed the call for the adoption of a universal definition, warning that without one victims faced a "postcode lottery" in access to protection.

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